Today there seems to be a new issue with Generated YouTube VideoScores having to do with the title being truncated. On my Score titled: "Prelude & Fugue in F Minor from 6 Etudes (Op. 52 No. 3) for String Quartet", the VideoScore title (and embedded title), The title has been truncated to "Prelude & Fugue in F Minor from 6 Etudes (Op. 52 No. 3) for String Qu" (69 characters) even though YouTube allows 100 characters.

I got a free trial of Musescore Pro about a month and a half ago. I have since canceled it since I don’t want to pay for it. That being said, I still get notifications from the pro group in my dashboard (I think it’s because I never actually left that group). When I click the posts, it just says the page is unavailable (probably since I’m no longer a pro member.) I can’t seem to do anything to remove myself from the group, and these notifications are bothering me.

That didn't take long! Thank you to everyone who has joined the group in the last 24 hours or so. :D

So, I have a couple of things to talk about, the first is announcing the competition, the second is regarding Admins and Judges etc, so I want to quickly apologise for the lengthy post.

But let's start with the fun bit!

CCC#1 - "The Watzmann" by Caspar David Friedrich.

"The Watzmann" is a painting by artist Caspar David Friedrich, made in the mid 1820s. It is a fantastic landscape painting, and although I know nothing about art, I absolutely love this painting.

This challenge was inspired by a composition task I was given at school, where we had to write a piece of music inspired by a painting. I chose a different painting by Caspar David Friedrich, which inspired me to look up some more of his art to use for this competition.

So, the challenge is fairly simple: Write a piece of music inspired by this painting, "The Watzmann". I look forward to seeing what you can come up with.

A few quick rules/details:1) You may use any ensemble of instruments.2) The piece must be between 1.30 and 5 minutes long.3) The piece must be original, not an arrangement.

You will be given a mark out of 10 for your piece, along with some feedback. You have until Sunday 19th May which gives you one month to complete the piece. I will announce the winners as soon as possible after that.

Admin / Judge

So, basically, if anyone would like to be an admin and judge in the competition, please message me. Your job will be to help me mark the scores, and make sure the group runs smoothly. Obviously, you won't be able to participate in any competitions which you help judge, so sorry about that. If no-one wants to, I can do it myself, but it would make things a lot easier for me, so message if you're willing to help. Thanks!

Conclusion

There. I apologise again for the long post. I'd never get away with this on RSA. :/Thanks again to everyone who helped boost this group to 30 members yesterday. :DI look forward to seeing all of your entries to the competition. Obviously you don't have to, but if you are entering, it would be helpful if you could just let me know in the comments. Have fun!

So a couple of people have asked for an extension for the first competition, and as we've only had a few of entries, I've decided to give you 1 week to complete your compositions. The one's we've had so far have been excellent, so keep 'em coming!

You now have until Saturday 25th May to complete your compositions. This is an extra 6 days, so be grateful. ;D

I will announce the winners on either Saturday on Sunday, depending on how long it takes me to mark them all. Well done to everyone who's entered so far!

These are the most recent of a series of pep band music, the 8th and 9th respectively. Every single one has worked until these two, which reload the page automatically within 10 seconds. It tries to load it again before giving up. The playback works correctly until the page reloads. This only happens on mobile, but on my desktop there are no problems. Is there any reason why this may be happening? There’s nothing setting these apart from the other arrangements and I’ve tried polishing up the files and reuploading. Any help would be appreciated.

Four days ago I noticed a new style of font on the comments section of my page. I figured it was your new Spring look, but now whenever I want to play a piece of mine or elsewhere one of three things happens:1) The blue line begins to race across the page before I press play and it plays with the scroll 8 or so bars ahead; 2) it stutters or does not play; 3) It plays (eureka!)Hardly a good way to entice listeners, wouldn't you say?Sometimes it stalls and it takes forever to leave the page.

Until this occurrence all had been fine. I have rebooted and my PC seems to be fine in all other aspects. I use Windows 10, Firefox and ver 2.3.2.

In the notifications I often see "sb. & xx more users subscribed to your updates/added your score to their Favourites list/...", but usually there's just one user and "xx more users" don't exist at all. I wonder why "& x more users" are displayed...

Today marks the release of MuseScore Piano Roll. Piano Roll is a popular and convenient method to display piano notation in a way that not only simplifies learning a new piece for novice musicians who lack a teacher, it also beautifully visualizes each score.

I have two problems with today's update:1) The very useful option of changing the relative volumes of the various voices has been removed and replaced by an option to view just one voice. That option effectively existed already in the now removed option. Please restore the old option, even if you retain the new one. It is very useful in bringing one part to the foreground, while not entirely muting the other parts.

2) On at least one score the entire score (all voices) is displayed an octave too high. Could the be related to the fact that part of the piano part has '8-------' above it, indicating that that part should be played an octave higher. The display is initially correct and is changed to the incorrect display in about one second.

The amount of times I have seen the "Crab Rave" score is not even a funny at this point. Just because you put song titles in your description doesn't mean that I want to see your score. And the only reason people do that is to only get views. And I feel there should be a limited amount of characters you could put in your descriptions. Also I feel as though Musescore should implement the feature of a report button. It could do some things like report something like putting song titles in descriptions, and after that I will not be able to view for a certain amount of time.